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New PCs restrict copying
News Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday released additional details about digital entertainment PCs coming in time for Christmas. While the features are compelling, analysts predict that the digital-entertainment PCs will be, at best, niche...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Downloads NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 digital entertainment solution delivers all of your entertainment choices--including TV and DVD viewing, video editing, digital music, 3D games, and more-in a single solution that transforms your PC into a high-tech...
[April 14, 2005, 8:00]
Lindows tackles DVD, music
News The media PCs appear to be a scaled-back response to Microsoft's heavily touted Windows XP Media Center, a version of the operating system that focuses on digital entertainment functions. Idot, a small PC maker specialising in direct online sales...
[January 29, 2003, 7:21]
Microsoft puts PCs into heart of home entertainment
News Cadiuex acknowledged that college students and teenagers are important target market groups for Windows Media Center PCs, as they would use the systems both for computing and digital entertainment. Freestyle PCs could be used for either standard...
[July 16, 2002, 8:19]
Gates wants information everywhere
News Media Center is a version of the PC operating system tweaked for handling digital media and entertainment tasks. Kicking off the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates demonstrated new technology for connecting digital content on...
[January 8, 2004, 8:40]
XP Media Center gets makeover
News New features of the entertainment OS include a TV Tuner and digital video recorder (DVR) for recording TV shows to the computer's hard drive. Currently, Microsoft does not sell the software separately; consumers must buy a Media Center PC to obtain...
[February 14, 2003, 11:52]
Microsoft unveils entertainment software
News The technology, called Microsoft Plus Digital Media Edition for Windows XP and part of the Microsoft Plus product line, is designed to give users of standard PCs more features for editing and playing with media files, without turning to...
[December 17, 2002, 7:36]
CES: Gates wants Windows XP in your living room
News Microsoft took yet another step down the consumer electronics path on Monday with the demonstration of a custom version of Windows XP tuned to digital entertainment. He said a more practical approach might be to access digital entertainment stored...
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
Is Apple on the way out?
Talkback What's hip now is digital entertainment. If they're right, they continue to reinvent themselves as a digitally-driven entertainment company -- which is sort of what they've been ever since they lost the education market 15 or so years ago.
[October 13, 2004, 22:22]
Media Center wins starring role
News Microsoft plans to start testing a new version of its Windows XP Media Center edition, which is a customised operating system designed for entertainment-oriented PCs. The cost difference between Media Center PCs and standard desktop computers has...
[January 28, 2004, 8:05]
CES: Samsung chief executive unveils home gadgets
News Freestyle includes applications for DVD and digital-music playback and for processing and recording live television, allowing the PC to become an entertainment command centre and a potential rival to digital video recorders from companies such as...
[January 9, 2002, 9:12]
Microsoft and Intel dancing to the same tune
News For several years, Microsoft promoted its Windows XP Media Center edition software while Intel touted a similar PC concept it called the Entertainment PC. In many cases, the entertainment PCs that came to market used Microsoft's operating system...
[January 5, 2006, 10:30]
Microsoft seeks spots in 'cool' TV shows
News Microsoft formed a group last November to gain exposure for Windows products in sports and entertainment programming, according to Andy Ma, Microsoft's program manager for strategic placement. Through the campaign, Microsoft joins other tech...
[October 6, 2003, 14:10]
Intel's consumer fumbling
News The idea is to create a brand that guarantees a level of PC performance needed to run sophisticated digital entertainment software, Skoog said. Many early versions of software meant for digital entertainment are designed to receive information...
[April 12, 2006, 13:35]
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 review
Reviews Not a bad idea, but it turned out that the TV video quality was poor, the systems stuttered switching between PC and entertainment tasks and the software made it difficult to burn recorded TV programs to DVDs.
[October 9, 2003, 14:55]
HP to announce Linux MP3 stereo
News The device, called the HP Digital Entertainment Center, is aimed at letting users download and play Internet music files, mainly MP3 tracks, without a PC. As for the operating system, Digital Entertainment Center uses the Linux 2.4 kernel and X...
[June 21, 2001, 16:07]
CyberLink MagicDirector
Downloads Automatic Video Editing Module for your Digital Home Entertainment Center. Fully compatible with CyberLink PowerCinema and Microsoft Windows XP MCE. Magic Editing: theme-based movie style options to automatically trim out unwanted video clip...
[June 8, 2007, 18:50]
Iconic Music Provider Strengthens Market Share Through Media-Focused PCs
White Papers Napster has a keen interest in the digital entertainment industry and constantly looks for ways to extend its services beyond the company's initial delivery medium: the Internet. When Microsoft asked Napster to develop a music service for the...
[August 30, 2007, 1:00]
Hubdog
Downloads Play, find, share, publish and discover fresh infotainment & entertainment content across unlimited media channels fit to your mobile device. Generate Topic Watch channels from specific keywords via Google News, Flickr, Webjay, Fotolia, Blinkx and...
[June 26, 2006, 8:00]
Microsoft's entertainment PC to debut in UK
News Microsoft is taking Media Center further overseas, with plans to launch the PC entertainment software in China, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Until now, sales of the entertainment-oriented PCs have been limited to the United States...
[August 6, 2003, 15:00]
